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Jun 27, 2019
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After the death of her best fried, Shahrzad marries the Caliph with the intention of killing him; but in order to survive long enough to do that she must tell him tales that will captivate him long enough to spare her life.
I can't believe I waited so long to read this book. I was captivated from the very first page.
First of all, I really enjoy reading the enemies to lovers trope so if you can't stand this trope then don't even both with this book. I say this because the love story in this book i ...more
I can't believe I waited so long to read this book. I was captivated from the very first page.
First of all, I really enjoy reading the enemies to lovers trope so if you can't stand this trope then don't even both with this book. I say this because the love story in this book i ...more
Based on The 1001 Nights, parts of this book are stunningly brilliant, and parts are just okay. When Shazi channels the original Scheherazade in her story telling, she is amazing. The language is rich, and the characters are compelling. Once the plot drifts away from Scheherazade's tales, though, it sort of flounders along in an average teenage love/angst story. I enjoyed it, and I think anyone who is a fan of YA fantasy and/or reinvented fairytales would enjoy it, but it didn't turn out to be a
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I really wanted to like this, especially since I've read such great things about it. However, I just couldn't get into it. There definitely needed to be more of an introduction for the characters, instead of just being thrust head first into the plot. Perhaps if the book had started a few days before Shahrzad was to marry Khalid, and she had had some interactions with Tariq and his friend (whose name I can't even remember) then I would have connected more with the characters and actually cared a
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